tracklist coming soon...

I will stream that on #asciinema!

https://asciinema.org/s/ghAujTxKGPntB38k 😉

Reply comments here in the thread or show up at #scheme on https://libera.chat

re: https://bart.degoe.de/building-a-full-text-search-engine-150-lines-of-code/

re: https://entropicthoughts.com/search-index-150-lines-haskell

#experimental #streaming

\cc @kookie @vidak @fkinoshita @mdhughes

Got something to record my synth hardware with and made a little 12 minute ambient jam about it.

http://lyk.so/music/rings-into-veno-echo.mp3

(Warning: 15MB file!)

Still new to modular, and still don't have a good sequencer, but I had fun at any rate. Looking forward to participating in #looptober this year.

#coffee

They're only Vampires if they're from Transylvania. Anywhere else are just sparkling bloodsuckers.

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the nintendo wii is my favourite video game console, because its hardware 
design is fascinating, and it is by far one of the easiest consoles to 
jailbreak and root

also its controllers, with all due respect, were revolutionary, and really 
made video games more accessible to an enormously broad and diverse 
audience

the console encouraged innovative human-computer interface metaphors, many 
of which were completely speculative, experimental, and entirely novel.

it is a fascinating and unique piece of hardware :-)

my main desire for getting linux on this wii was to read emails and listen 
to internet radio etc on it, and use it primarily as a very low power 
desktop computer!

so i suppose what i'm carrying out isn't really an absolute, universal 
good, for all people - but i am certainly able to now use this device to 
pirate a great many games, and utilise its exceptional graphics processing 
performance for things, like watching videos etc etc

but yes! aside from that, there is no real use, apart from practising 
software freedom, really!

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okay this is what you do to get linux working on your Wii:

- download the debian distribution prepared for the Wii here: 
https://github.com/neagix/wii-linux-ngx

the kernel version is pretty old, it's 3.15 or some verison of 3.X

but once you do that, make 2 partitions on an SD card:

(1) - FAT16 (for booting the exploit which loads the kernel, basically the 
hacked bootloader which you got access to once you rooted your console). 
i'd recommend making this boot partition about 50MiB big

(2) - some ext3 or ext4 partition, of a nice large size - i'd recommend 
using a 64GiB SD card, because you'll need a really big swap file for this 
install

put the bootloader ELF files in the FAT16 partition, and put the linux 
root filesystem in the ext3/4 partition

slap dat SD card in, and select the kernel image from the BootMii menu you 
installed when you rooted your console.

>Welcome to Linux. (~ o w o )~ _/

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what to do in order to update the system:

this is what your /etc/apt/sources.list file should look like:

`deb http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports unstable main
`deb http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports sid main
`deb http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports experimental main

this is because Debian, in true bastardy, has removed support for PowerPC 
CPUs. you need to get the apt repository that they've archived.

but once you'd done that, and you've got your networking going, (which 
most would be able to do because it's debian), you should be able to:

`apt-get update

and then All Should Be Right In The World. with a simple

`apt-get install emacs

you should now be able to use emacs on your Nintendo Wii

:-)

Had a little flashback to a job interview some years ago, for Obj-C Mac/iOS. And we get like half an hour in, and it's kinda boring but might pay well, and the guy asks me if I'd interviewed there before. I look around at the generic beige/grey cubicles and generic office park and generic guy and go ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Later checked my old emails and I did, like 10 years before for a Java gig.

I was relieved at the no-callback.

Can you imagine doing 10, 20 years in beige prison? Dodged a bullet twice.

Speaking of dying, I play Rogule most days, and sometimes it gives the most trivial win possible, just walk to another room and go thru the gate. Other days, you get no loot/weapons, and a pile of mobs in the start room. And you can't kite mobs unless there's a corridor. Still pretty interesting.

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